Occupation: Writer Birth: January 6, 1965
In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particula….
For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant..
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or le….
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologie….
I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuf….
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the numb….
We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said,….
Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or ….
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming..
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world..
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we….
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six ….
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education inf….
It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six deg….
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is….
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation..
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart..
I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what ….
The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed f….
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy..
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that t….